Drosophila is a genus of flies of the family Drosophilidae. It comprises over 1600 described species, but is estimated to have several thousands. Alfred Sturtevant divided Drosophila into a number of subgenera, including Drosophila, Sophophora, and Dorsilopha. A D. abjuncta - Hardy, 1965 D. abregolineata - Duda, 1925 D. abron - Burla, 1954 D. abure - Burla, 1954 D. acanthomera - Tsacas, 2001 D. acanthoptera - Wheeler, 1949 D. acanthos - Kam and Pereira in O'Grady et al., 2003 D. acanthostoma - Hardy and Kaneshiro, 1968 D. acelidota - Tsacas, 2004 D. aceti - Kollar in Heeger, 1851 D. achlya - Hardy, 1966 D. acroria - Wheeler and Takada in Wheeler et al., 1962 D. acrostichalis - Hardy, 1965 D. acrostigma - Tsacas and Chassagnard, 1999 D. acuminanus - Hunter, 1989 D. acutilabella - Stalker, 1953 D. adamisa - Chassagnard and Tsacas in Chassagnard et al., 1997 D. adamsi - Wheeler, 1959 D. addisoni - Pavan, 1950 D. adiastola - Hardy, 1965 D. adunca - Hardy, 1965 D. adventitia - Hardy, 1965 D. aenicta - Hardy, 1966 D. afer - Tan, Hsu and Sheng, 1949 D. affinidisjuncta - Hardy, 1978 D. affinis - Sturtevant, 1916 D. afoliolata - Zhang and Toda in Zhang, Toda and Watabe, 1995 D. agitona - Hardy, 1965 D. aglaia - Hardy, 1965 D. aguape - Val and Marques, 1996 D. agumbensis - Prakash and Reddy, 1978 D. akai - Burla, 1954 D. akoko - Magnacca and O'Grady, 2008 D. alafumosa - Patterson and Mainland in Patterson, 1943 D. alagitans - Patterson and Mainland in Patterson, 1943 D. alani - Pipkin, 1964 D. albescens - Frota-Pessoa, 1954 D. albicans - Frota-Pessoa, 1954 D. albifacies - Hardy, 1965 D. albincisa - de Meijere, 1911 D. albipalpis - Katoh, Toda and Gao, in Katoh et al., 2018 D. albipes - Walker, 1852 D. albirostris - Sturtevant, 1921 D. albomarginata - Duda, 1927 D. albomicans - (Duda, 1923) D. albonotata - de Meijere, 1911 D. aldrichi - Patterson in Patterson and Crow, 1940 D. alei - Brncic, 1962 D. alexanderae - Pipkin, 1964 D. alexandrei - Cordeiro, 1951 D. alfari - Sturtevant, 1921 D. algonquin - Sturtevant and Dobzhansky, 1936 D. alladian - Burla, 1954 D. allochroa - Tsacas, 2002 D. aloma - Tsacas in Tsacas and Lachaise, 1981 D. alpina - Burla, 1948 D. alsophila - Hardy and Kaneshiro, 1971 D. alternolineata - Duda, 1925 D. altiplanica -